Big Sur

Big Sur

By Jack Kerouac

Pages

224

Rating

3.84

Year

1962

TravelFictionClassicsAmerican20Th CenturyLiterature

Description

A poignant masterpiece of wrenching personal expression from the author of On the Road and The Dharma Bums.

In this 1962 novel, Kerouac's alter ego Jack Duluoz, overwhelmed by success and excess, gravitates back and forth between wild binges in San Francisco and an isolated cabin on the California coast where he attempts to renew his spirit and clear his head of madness and alcohol. Only nature seems to restore him to a sense of balance.

Endorsements

“Big Sur reveals consciousness in all its syntactic elaboration, detailing the luminous emptiness of his own paranoiac confusion.” — Allen Ginsberg

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